Tokyo Ghoul - The original manga, with 143 chapters (14 volumes) + a side story chapter in volume 5.
Tokyo Ghoul JACK - A short prequel to the original manga.
Tokyo Ghoul JOKER - A single chapter taking place between the original manga and the sequel. Included in volume 3 of Tokyo Ghoul:re.
Tokyo Ghoul Redrawn - A remake of the first chapter of the original manga. Has some differences in dialogue.
Tokyo Ghoul:re - The sequel manga, continues the story of the original with 179 chapters (16 volumes) + chapter 31.5 in volume 4.
Tokyo Ghoul Oneshot - A non-canon prototype chapter.
School of Ghoul - A non-canon parody of Tokyo Ghoul by the manga author, featuring the characters going to school together.
Novels - Part of the manga's continuity
Tokyo Ghoul Days - The first novel, takes place between chapters 35 and 36 of the original manga.
Tokyo Ghoul Void - The second novel, takes place between chapters 79 and 80 of the original manga.
Tokyo Ghoul Past - The third novel, backstories from before the original manga.
Tokyo Ghoul:re Quest - The fourth novel, takes place during the sequel manga.
6th Ward Playing Cards - A short story taking place around the start of the TG:re manga, showing a flashback to an event likely taking place between chapters 79 to 80 of the original manga.
Drama CDs - Part of the manga's continuity
Drama CDs - Take place during the original manga sometime between chapters 79 and chapter 120 or so.
Anime - Alternate continuity
Tokyo Ghoul (season 1) - Adapts the first 66 chapters of the original manga, making some significant cuts and changes to the story. Has 12 episodes.
Tokyo Ghoul √A (season 2) - A loose adaptation of the remaining chapters of the original manga, makes even more significant cuts and changes to the story. Has 12 episodes.
Tokyo Ghoul JACK - A prequel OVA episode, an adaptation of the manga of the same name.
Tokyo Ghoul PINTO - A prequel OVA episode, an adaptation of the third chapter of the Tokyo Ghoul Days novel.
Tokyo Ghoul:re (season 3) - An adaptation of the Tokyo Ghoul:re manga, with 24 episodes total. References events from the original manga that were not shown in previous seasons, but cuts some :re manga content. Episodes 1 to 12 adapt the first chapter 58 of the Tokyo Ghoul:re manga, while episodes 13 to 24 adapt the rest (up to the end, chapter 179). The second half of the season is also referred to as Tokyo Ghoul Season 4 and Tokyo Ghoul:re Season 2 on some sites, but official sites list Tokyo Ghoul:re as a single season with 24 episodes.
Video Games - Alternate continuity + Anime continuity
Tokyo Ghoul: JAIL (PS Vita) - An alternate version of events taking place after chapter 79 of the original manga.
Tokyo Ghoul mobile games - Tokyo Ghoul :re Invoke (global version called :re birth), Tokyo Ghoul: carnaval, Tokyo Ghoul: Tokyo War Age and Tokyo Ghoul: Dark War. These have all shut down and are hence no longer playable. They followed the anime's continuity for the most part.
Tokyo Ghoul:re CALL to EXIST (PS4 and Steam) - An action game adapting some events from seasons 2 and 3 of the anime.
Live Action Movie
Tokyo Ghoul (2017) - Adapts the first 28 chapters of the original manga with some minor changes to the story and content cut.
Tokyo Ghoul S (2019) - The sequel to the previous movie, adapting up to chapter 46 of the original manga.
Stage Play
Tokyo Ghoul Stage Play (2015 and 2017) - Adapt events from the first 6 episodes of the first season of the anime, with content cut and rearranged.
The Shonen Jump app and Viz website have both the original manga and :re available to read, for a 1.99 USD monthly subscription which gives access to most of their library. In addition to this, Tokyo Ghoul Jack and the side story novels are available to purchase and read on the app.
Note: The Rize side story chapter from TG volume 5, Tokyo Ghoul Joker from :re volume 3, and :re chapter 31.5 from :re volume 4 are not available to read individually on the app at this time, so you will need to buy those volumes to read them officially. Out of those chapters, :re chapter 31.5 is the most important.
Manga Plus posts new chapters weekly, though only a limited number of chapters are available for viewing.
Basic - Tokyo Ghoul ➞ JACK and PINTO OVA episodes or manga/novels they adapt (optional) ➞Tokyo Ghoul:re
Complete - Tokyo Ghoul ➞ Tokyo Ghoul JACK, JOKER, Days, Void, Past, Drama CDs, 6th Ward Playing Cards ➞ Tokyo Ghoul:re ➞ Tokyo Ghoul:re Quest
/u/TheMikarin's complete recommended order - Tokyo Ghoul chapters 1 to 35 ➞ Tokyo Ghoul Days ➞ Tokyo Ghoul chapters 36 to 46 ➞ Tokyo Ghoul JACK ➞ Tokyo Ghoul chapters 46.5 to 79 ➞ Tokyo Ghoul Void ➞ Tokyo Ghoul chapters 80 to 121 ➞ Tokyo Ghoul Past + Tokyo Ghoul Drama CDs ➞ Tokyo Ghoul chapters 122 to 143 (END) ➞ Tokyo Ghoul JOKER + Tokyo Ghoul Redrawn + 6th Ward Playing Cards ➞ Tokyo Ghoul:re chapters 1 to 98 ➞ Tokyo Ghoul:re Quest ➞ Tokyo Ghoul:re chapters 99 onward
Anime
Basic (not recommended) - Tokyo Ghoul (season 1) ➞ Tokyo Ghoul JACK (alternatively, watch right after episode 1 of season 2) ➞ Tokyo Ghoul √A (season 2) ➞ Tokyo Ghoul PINTO ➞ Tokyo Ghoul:re (season 3)
Complete (recommended) - same as basic, but read the original manga before watching Tokyo Ghoul:re (season 3)
If you follow the basic viewing order for the anime, and do not wish to read the manga, you may want to view the following fan-animated clips recreating important events from the manga that were skipped in the anime:
The first 3 clips in the link above are to be watched after season 2 and before season 3, while the other 2 are to be watched after finishing the entire anime (all seasons).
EDIT: Updated when to read :re quest in my recommended order from after chapter 58 to after chapter 98 instead, since I realized there was at least one spoiler for a plot point revealed after chapter 58 in one of the quest stories.
EDIT 2: Added the short story 6th Ward Playing cards and the Drama CDs to the viewing order. Also added mentions of the various Tokyo Ghoul games.
If someone asked me this question in the past it would be a yes, but if you look deeper into it their bond it’s like a never ending cycle of trauma, mental abuse and grooming. Arima never actually saw Kaneki as an individual he only ever saw him as an object.
He chose Kaneki to be the king because he saw mass potential when they first fought, but it also feels like he victimized him.
When Kaneki is on white hair (Shironeki/KaneKing) he looks the same just with sighlty longer hair (and ofc Ishida's evolution) this is more noticeable when he uses the mask.
However when he goes back to black hair he looks NOTHING like the original one, his factions become more mature and less young, he's hair is much longer and this isn't even a matter of art evolution Ishida drew Kuroneki several times in Re and even Redid chapter 1 with Re's artstyle and it still didn't look like Reaperneki.
However after getting out of the dragon despite having longer white hair he somehow resembles Kuroneki again
I find it really wholesome in a way, it means how the innocent Ken we saw at the beginning was slowly vanishing the more his personality changed yet the final one is curiously the one that looks the most to the original Kaneki as if a part of Kaneki he lost long ago had suddenly come back.
The Tokyo Ghoul: Re deluxe box set was announced a day ago. It was announced to mark the 15th anniversary, alongside other works by Ishida. For example, a discounted edition of the first volume of Tokyo Ghoul, a discounted edition of the first volume of Choujin X, and a variant edition of the 13th volume of Choujin X.
Definitely add more foreshadowing and slightly change some designs Whether it's for greater contrast between OG and Re or just for taste (for example, Itori in Cochlea's flashback, whose hair in OG now seems to be more similar to her short appearance in the timeskip at the end of Re); perhaps that includes better establishing the shapeshifting nature of the kagune.
Also, I think he would give more construction time to practically every important turning point and add symbolism, or at least that's what I get from him giving the director guidelines for the final episode of the first season (as Morita reveals in his AMA, yeah, Ishida basically gave Morita a guide of how he wanted episode 12 to be).
Rize's hinting at her past with the Washu in the redraw honestly took me by surprise.
Also, I found it curious that Yomo burned down Anteiku like in Root A instead of it being demolished like in the original. Interesting retcon, but I guess for the sake of impact that scene is canon now.
I got the false girl Juuzou today on my first try ^^ so I wanted to share this drawing I made recently, I'm currently working with a 3d artist on a model commision, based on this drawing, which I plan to turn into a garage kit soon! I decided to change some aspects of his auction arc design, because the og dress kind of ircs me, but I'm really exited to have started this project ^^
A major plot point of Volume 1 (chapters 1-9) is Kaneki's refusal to eat.
"You want it?"
The first time Kaneki and Touka meet as Ghouls is in some back alley where she is getting assaulted by a drunk. She kills him quickly and—sensing that Kaneki is a Ghoul—offers him a snack since she's not that hungry right now.
Kaneki is still confused as to what's happening to him and runs away in fear.
Not long after, feeling the effects of the hunger, Kaneki seeks Touka out and asks her for help. The Boss gives him some food to eat, but he ends up throwing it away because he can't bring himself to eat a person.
Time passes and Kaneki still hasn't eaten anything. On his way home from the store, he ends up being drawn by the sweet smell of a corpse nearby. Some random Ghoul killed somebody.
Witnessing all this, Kaneki freaks out and calls Ghouls monsters with no morals.
"Eat it!"
Touka can tell he hasn't eaten what they've given him. That he hasn't eaten anything at all.
So she scoops some bits off of the corpse and—frustrated by his words and his decision not to eat—forcefully shoves them in his mouth saying that if he doesn't have the courage to eat, she'll help him out. Still, he forces himself to puke most of it out.
As a farewell, she tells him that a Ghoul's hunger is hell, and that that is what awaits him if he won't eat.
"looks delicious, doesn't it?"
After Kaneki fights off Nishiki in the final chapter of the volume, he starts to lose his mind from the hunger and decides to eat Hide to satisfy it.
Touka shows up to stop him. She tells him about what happens to Ghouls who refuse to eat.
Once a Ghoul's hunger reaches its limit, nothing else matters. They'll eat their friends, their family, anything. And once they wake up from the hunger madness, it might be among the sea of blood and entrails of people dear to them.
"I'll save you from that fate this time"
So she tells him she will save him from that fate this time. She kicks his lights out, and together with the Boss, they force-feed him some food at Anteiku while he's unconscious.
Small thing to point out here is that what Touka says here is 同情 (doujyou), which means ~"sympathy" or "compassion," but it is written as "救う" (sukuu), which means ~"to rescue,""to relieve," or "to redeem."
just another night in the life of a ghoul
Touka's decision to forcefully shove human flesh down Kaneki's throat initially comes off as insensitive since he's made it clear through his words and actions that he has no intention of eating such a thing.
However, she's been a Ghoul for much longer than he has. And from what she says in this 1st volume, she seems to be aware of some Ghouls who have killed people close to them to satisfy their hunger and have regretted it deeply once they came to their senses.
Seeing Kaneki refuse to eat makes her worry. Not so much about him. She doesn't know him. And what little talk they had was not pleasant. She's worried as a fellow Ghoul. She's worried because what's happening to him can happen to any of them. A Ghoul's hunger is a fate they all bear. And there's only one way to satisfy it.
So when he finally loses it and tries to eat his closest friend, she is there to stop him. Because she hopes that one day if she ever finds herself in the same position, somebody will be there to stop her as well; to show her the same sympathy.
Tokyo ghould was the First anime i watched around 7 years ago.
I watched it fully back then but i never rewatched it again.
I have heard a lot of people talk about how the show was just not it after like S2 or S3 or smth
Now i do remember the plot how it starts and how it ends but i was thinking to rewatch just here to ask if reating the manga is worth it considering it will probably take longer than just watching the anime
I was thinking of watching like S1 and S2 then read the manga after those parts.
Tokyo ghould was the First anime i watched around 7 years ago.
I watched it fully back then but i never rewatched it again.
I have heard a lot of people talk about how the show was just not it after like S2 or S3 or smth
Now i do remember the plot how it starts and how it ends but i was thinking to rewatch just here to ask if reating the manga is worth it considering it will probably take longer than just watching the anime
I was thinking of watching like S1 and S2 then read the manga after those parts.
I just received the Tokyo ghoul re complete box set as a gift, and when checking all the volumes I noticed this weird green strip on the left of the cover of volume 11 that won't come off. Is it a misprint?
(I think he was underutilized,he is a potential man !)
Guys,this is just a huge nitpick,but I wanted more to do with Tatara ! His origins seemed super interesting and I was excited to learn more about him ! His Kakuja was cool but a bit over the top,(4000* degrees is utterly absurd).
While it was satisfying to see Takizawa off him,it kinda felt wasted because he could have been more interesting there !
Hey ! I just wanted to share with you guys the Kagune I commissioned to a very talented artist named vanmie/vanmissy.
This Kagune is a Koukaku, and it is inspired by Japanese weapon like Sasumata or Sai, and by scorpionidae and crustaceans. It is intended to be a very defensive oriented Kagune with outward oriented spikes which can block its, and with 3 tentacles that kind of fuse into a defensive form that act as a shield.
I believe some people will enjoy it as much as I do ! Tell me what you think ^-^
PLEASE DO NOT USE AI ON THIS IMAGE OR REMOVE THE SMALL WATERMARK. You can obvisouly share it but I do not want it to be turned into AI slop.
I know there are several versions of the story, but after all the research I did (including the average number of pages adapted per anime episode), Ishida's draft should have reached episode 5 or 7 with its slightly over 300 pages (especially since the second siege of Cochlea should have been much shorter, as the published pages up to 190 are Kano's arc and the prelude to the siege).
Even though the production committee ruined it, shouldn't the extermination of the Owl have followed the manga? I suppose Amon without his Arata and this ending were something Ishida and Morita brainstormed, but it doesn't make sense that they (or maybe just Morita) kept this version for the final episode, especially considering that the production committee forced them to stick to the main points of the canon story, the later part of the story was adapted (partially) and the manga ended at the same time as season 1 (including things like how in tight anime productions, episodes are finished days, if not hours, before they air).
Note: In case anyone isn't familiar with the topic, Shuhei Morita directed the first two seasons of the anime, and Ishida (the mangaka) created a draft of around 300 pages for the story changes.
Stupid post— because In sure there’s always someone coming here glazing the manga, but it is literally one of the best piece of media I’ve read and even battling most ‘normal’ books I’ve read.
I read it over and over again and still somehow catch stuff that I’ve never noticed before. I’ve read multiple manga’s after this and yet this one was the one left deeply engraved into my skull. There’s a lot of characters to hate but deep down I love them too because THATS how good they were written.
I’ll never forget the incident done on the poor boy Shirazu and the anime but otherwise— I dont think I’ll ever find a manga as good as this 🙂↕️
I have had this thought a million times already and each one of them had the same answer. Sadly you know what the answer is too. If there IS something that is stopping studios from animating tokyo ghoul(yes i know its not allowed to randomly animate a remake for no reason and dumb)what is it?
Sui ishida not wanting to?
Not having the perms or something like that?
Just what are even the chances there is a remake someday at all?
Right now im reading the manga of toyko ghoul and was wondering what even is toyko ghoul re about?
For context I just finished volume 10 so after the aogori tree raid atc and into he dr.kano stuff. Haven't watched anime cuz i heard its ass so saving that until I'm done reading
Ik that toyko ghoul re follows a different set of characters but also that the main character is kaneki? Is that a huge spoiler that ken had memory loss (like will it be explained later on in Tokyo ghoul:re or it's something thats know when u first start reading it).
Last thing is toyko ghoul re apart of the main story or is it like a AU type thing so its apart of the world but from a different perspective type way? Does it acknowledge the ending of toyko ghoul or is re still apart of the main story and has the final ending ( idk the ending so pls don't spoil 🙏)
Pls no spoilers Im trying my best to avoid them 🙏🙏